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Since this year's Holiday Cookie Boxes were being
gifted to friends of multiple religions I wanted to give my beloved recipe a holiday - neutral makeover so that they could be included.
I would love to
gift this to friend of mine who has had a very trying year as a reminder that she is loved and appreciated by many.
Not exact matches
According
to the Wells Fargo / Gallup study, women business owners said their top three sources
of initial funding for their business are cash or savings (85 percent), personal credit cards (37 percent) and financial
gifts or support from family or
friends (29 percent).
There's also the new
gift service, which looks at the Facebook profiles
of your
friends and suggests items they might like, and something called Taste Test, which asks you
to rate a smattering
of random items and then suggests things
to buy.
Finally, it included a
gift certificate, along with an invitation
to a VIP tour
of one
of the chain's stores in order
to discuss its offerings with a knowledgeable member
of their staff, and a promise
to revisit the product offerings as per my
friend's original suggestion.
«Ultimately they want
to make sure that if their
friends and family want
to give them a
gift — and
of course, they do — that it's something useful.»
«A lot
of folks mailed them as
gifts to friends, family and co-workers,» D'Aquanni says.
Whether it's buying
gifts for
friends, family and coworkers, or having a list
of projects that need
to be wrapped up before the New Year, a checklist makes everyone more productive.
Sears, Roebuck and Co. may have been able
to infer when you bought a
gift from their catalog for a
friend who lived in another town, but Amazon has more reason (and more ability)
to use that information
to build a profile
of your
friend's interests.
Rather than buying piles
of a tat and unwanted
gifts to put under the tree, I will give family and
friends a crowd investment.
If you're not comfortable with
gifting money
to your
friend or family member, you may also want
to consider pointing in them in the direction
of some unconventional financing options where they can get a loan — even if they have poor credit.
The holidays are already an emotional time for shoppers, with little kids tugging at parents
to buy them things, with pressure
to get the perfect
gifts for new family members,
friends and business associates, and with a perceived lack
of time
to get it all done perfectly.
An Understanding
of Customer Needs / Interests: When you're trying
to buy the perfect
gift for your mother, spouse, or
friend, you can easily visualize them in your head as you shop.
This week marks the official kickoff
to the holiday shopping season, meaning millions
of Americans will begin that month - long quest
to find the perfect
gifts for family and
friends.
Chances are, your audience would want cool wine accessories and
gifts for their family and
friends, and the wine accessory company would want an audience
of wine lovers
to buy more accessories.
-LSB-...] There are tons
of ways
to save money on
gifts for your
friends, loved ones, or whoever else you give Valentine's Day
gifts to.
If you want
to help your
friend out and can afford
to do so, go ahead, but think
of it as a
gift.
My objections would have more
to do with the lengths some might go
to cut their taxes under such a system; selling stocks in droves right before tax season, giving
gifts out
to family and
friends (perhaps with the intent
to take them back after the tax man leaves), and
of course, owning more assets outside
of America.
The shift in our understanding
of sex from a sacramental and life - changing encounter
to the thing you do with your
friends when you're bored has made all
of our relationships shallower and made each
of us less capable
of the profound
gift of self on which marriage is founded.
You've just finished a decent main course, and are about
to consider the dessert menu when one
of your
friends gets up, taps their glass with a spoon, and announces that they have bought desserts for everyone as a
gift.
I believe that its important
to see inner wisdom and the council
of friends and wise and knowledgeable people... but God, if he / she exists created us — right... oh yes w / brains... we should be honoring that by using them... I can imagine if God exists every day he is saying
to himself / herself «why do people keep asking me for things I have not control over, or really could care less about (people are asking for a new shinny house
to replace their perfectly fine house while millions are homeless around the world, hungry, sick, etc.)... why are they not using the
gifts and skills they have».
Partnering with organizations like WorldReach (who allows you
to sponsor children) and Charity: Water (who lets you tell your
friends to donate instead
of getting you a birthday present every year) or finding a cause like ending human trafficking, supporting education or assisting the homeless can represent more than just one - time
gifts or temporary passions.
Mountaintop experiences are
gifts, whole and complete in themselves: a marriage where the love and delight stay kindled through the years, children,
friends old or new, a job that we enjoy doing and that contributes
to the welfare
of others, good retirement years.
It also includes pages
of perforated
gift tags in the back
to include with a meal dropped off for an ailing
friend or an unexpected treat for a friendly neighbor — so you get
to #beTheGIFT — and be part
of changing the world — and your heart — right where you are.
Little by little, though the irresistible development
of those yearnings you implanted in me as a child, through the influence
of gifted friends who entered my life at certain moments
to bring light and strength
to my mind, and through the awakenings
of spirit I owe
to the successive initiations, gentle and terrible, which you caused me
to undergo: through all these I have been brought
to the point where I can no longer see anything, nor any longer breathe, outside that milieu in which all is made one.
Perhaps our oldest references
to how
gifts are not just about relationships, but also carry a sublimated logic
of exchange comes in Book VI
of the Iliad, when Homer tells us about a
gift exchange between two hereditary hospitality
friends:
She managed, in the course
of a single day,
to turn us from strangers into
friends, a remarkable
gift that few share.
In cases such as these, we must learn
to view the
friend as an agent
of testing, a
gift in the form
of an obstacle, a revealer
of our darker side whose challenge makes possible great growth — but never without struggle.
Christmas is the time
of year when people celebrate with
gifts to family and
friends, especially children.
I made a promise
to pray for one particular
friend every single day
of her pregnancy, this is how I did it: I wrote her name down and every day, I held her up
to the Spirit and quietly prayed for peace, for strength, for joy, for wisdom, for all the big nouns
to be
gifts for her.
It is the last wonderful
gift of the
friend of the Bridegroom
to his disciples.
But the Lord had chosen a mother for that baby, and a child for that mother — nothing is more loving, our
friends found, than helping a parent
to receive the Father's
gift of life.
Nevertheless, fundraising appeals which imply prayers for physical healing or the salvation
of a
friend are more likely
to be answered when a financial
gift is given, are not uncommon.
Whether
friend or foe, we all fall short
of the glory
of God The
gift of the sacrifice
of God's son saved everyone who belives Jesus died for all and resurrected from death., thereby defeating death
of the soul caused by sin Salvation can not be earned It is the
gift of God As for why God allowed the Egyptians
to die, God saved his chosen people from certain death by killing those who would surely cause the same.
The protagonist
of Humboldt's
Gift, Charlie Citrine, is a successful playwright and biographer who returns
to the Chicago
of his boyhood; muddles about in the urban scene while trying
to straighten out a marital problem; leaves for Spain with a large
friend, Renata; is deserted by her; returns
to America
to bury his old
friend Von Humboldt Fleisher; and receives his bequest.
While we all know painful stories
of friends and family who were victims
of injustice, spiritual abuse, and unhealthy environments, it is possible
to thrive as we use our
gifts to serve Jesus and bless others.
High school can be a disorienting, angsty time, but because
of youth group I made lifelong
friends, I got
to travel, I deepened my faith, I had opportunities
to teach and lead and use my
gifts, I learned
to not take myself so seriously, and I learned exactly how many marshmallows I could cram into my mouth without chocking
to death.
My hairdresser
friend, Larry, who painstakingly tries
to shape my shrinking hirsute peninsula into something stylish, is
gifted at sharing the good news
of Jesus with his clients.
They picked up the idea and continued it... SO in a way Santa lives on even today... So who is
to say that Santa does not exist, when the spirit
of Santa lives on in parents, and families and relatives, and
friends... at least a little in all over the parents and familys, and
friends, that exchange
gifts on Christmas...
Your
friends want you
to attend their wedding, but in the same way that love covers a multitude
of sins, a nice
gift masterfully replaces the fact that you couldn't attend their ceremony.
I first spoke in tongues at age 14, raised my hands in exuberant worship at revivals and camp meetings, witnessed
to my
friends at school and tried
to convince Christian
friends that they needed the «sign
gift»
of speaking in tongues
to be fully Spirit - filled.
«After all,» I wrote
to a
friend, «we've been married almost four years now, under circumstances that most people would think pretty lousy and we have received wonderful
gifts of companionship and love and comfort.
The great
gift of the Sabbath is
to legitimately forget for one day the pressures
of this world, and
to revel in God's grace spending extra time with Him, with family, and with
friends.
And I saw the hurt
of friends who believed and yet were never given the
gift of tongues themselves, made
to feel like they lacked faith.
If they turn back, then size them, and slay them wherever ye find them; but take none
of them as
friends or helpers» - The Koran, (sura 4:90) «Men are superior
to women on account
of the qualities with which God hath
gifted the one above the other,» - sura 4:37 «a blessing on anyone who seizes your babies and shatters them against a rock» - psalms 137:9 (Jerusalem Bible)
I know no greater
gift that a community
of friends that wants me
to be there — a place where I know I'm loved.
Here friendship, or more accurately the hatred
of bourgeois beliefs and attitudes which bound together these
gifted Cambridge men, and which was as close as they could come
to friendship («the enemy
of my enemy is my
friend»), serves
to justify the profoundest evil.
He said his time on the RV was a «
gift from God,» but he decided he needed
to spend the last couple
of weeks focusing on his non-believing family and
friends in New Jersey.
Hey you guys, I can't wait for your new book
to land in my mailbox in Denmark, I preordered it a couple
of weeks ago, but still hop
to win your signed copy, as it would be the BEST
gift for my sweet
friend Agnete, with whom I often cook your recipes.